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ANDERS LUSTGARTEN |
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Literary Agent: Curtis Brown Group Ltd |
Anders Lustgarten is Pearson Playwright-in-Residence at the Finborough Theatre, where his first two plays The Insurgents (2007), a comic drama about Kurdish immigration and political resistance to globalisation, and Enduring Freedom (2008), a powerful portrayal of the Bush years were produced, while Torture Comedy, a satire on rendition and the War on Terror, was part of Vibrant! A Festival of Finborough Playwrights in 2009. From 2007-8, Anders was on attachment at the Soho Theatre. He is taking his new play, You Cannot Escape Our Love, about Zimbabwe after Mugabe, to the Harare International Festival of Arts in April 2010. Anders is under commission to the Bolton Octagon. Other work includes The Punishment Stories, about black prisoners and Islam (shortlisted for the 2007 Verity Bargate Award), and an adaptation of Slawomir Mrozek's The Police (BAC 2007). Anders works as a political activist; he has also taught on Death Row, been arrested by the Turkish secret police, and holds a PhD in Chinese politics from the University of California.
Plays by Anders Lustgarten
Bang Up | ||
| 1st Produced: | 08 May 2010 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #115461 | |||
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Genre: | short play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | part of Election Drama. Supporting Wall invited a number of writers to come up with playlets within hours of the polls closing in Thursday's general election | |||||
Synopsis: | Anders Lustgarten's Bang Up portrayed a group of disenfranchised prisoners watching election-night TV, with sharp dialogue | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Black Jesus | ||
| 1st Produced: | reading, Finborough Theatre, 118 Finborough Road, London SW10 9ED >>> | 23 Jul 2011 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #128172 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | part of Vibrant A Festival of Finborough Playwrights 2011 | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Day at the Racists, A | ||
| 1st Produced: | 04 Mar 2010 | |||||
Company: | Rogue State Theatre Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1408130582 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #102598 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | doubling; extras | |||||
Notes: | first read as part of Central Lines: Soho Theatre and Theatre Royal, Stratford East join forces for a 2-week season of new play readings. Fresh and exciting, these new plays all share the concerns of culture, identity, race and religion in modern Britain. | |||||
| A Day at the Racists is a devastatingly timely examination of the rise of the BNP in London. Pete Case used to be something - a leading Labour Party organiser in the local car factories. Now he struggles to get by as a decorator as immigrant workers undercut his best mate's firm, his son Mark can't get a job or onto the housing list and nobody, from his Labour MP to his granddaughter's teacher, seems to care. Then Pete finds unexpected hope: Gina is young, mixed race and standing for Parliament on a platform of helping the local community. She is standing for the British National Party. As Pete's rage and despair gradually overcome his longstanding loathing of the BNP, he is drawn into the world of Gina's campaign and finds himself entangled in a nightmare of political machinations that pit his closest relationships - son, best mate, lover - against his longest-held beliefs and newfound aims. Set in the very Barking constituency that BNP leader Nick Griffin is to stand for in the forthcoming General Election, A Day at the Racists is a uniquely brave and perceptive piece of political theatre that both attempts to understand why people might be drawn to the BNP and diagnoses the deeper cause of that attraction - the political abandonment and betrayal of the working class by New Labour. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Election Drama: A Theatrical Response | ||
| 1st Produced: | 08 May 2010 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #119350 | |||
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Genre: | Piece | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | written by Che Walker; Rex Obano; Anders Lustgarten; Phil Willmott | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Enduring Freedom | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2008 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Giant Steps | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #86166 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | doubling | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
| When Tom and Susan, a New Jersey couple, lose their son in the attack on the twin towers, it begins to affect their marriage, friends and community. As Tom's grief forces him to begin to question the post 9/11 orthodoxy, he finds himself not only at odds with his wife, but also with the government itself. As the neighbours take sides, shock jocks rant, conspiracy theories abound and politicians wave the flag, Tom and Susan are pushed to breaking point as one particular political clique appropriates a nation's mourning. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Fat Man, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 16 Mar 2011 | |||||
Company: | Reclaim Productions, in association with Meeting Point Productions | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1849430630 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #126114 | |||
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Genre: | short play, performance lecture | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Part of Theatre Uncut. Across the country thousands of people are involved in protests and debates, sparked into action by the largest cuts to public spending since World War Two. Theatre Uncut is a national theatre event in response to these cuts, bringing together some of the UK's leading dramatists. (based on an initial idea by Simon Stephens and Anders Lustgarten) | |||||
| The Fat Man, is a savagely neat little economics lesson that explains how 85% of the Greek bailout went straight back to the banks. | |||||
Further Reference: | Theatre Record Volume XXXI (2011) Issue 06 Page 292 | |||||
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Insurgents, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2007 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #86167 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Police, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2007 | |||||
Company: | WSR Productions | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #62833 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Slawomir Mrozek | |||||
Synopsis: | It is a very bad day for the chief of police. After 10 years languishing in prison, the state's last remaining political prisoner is insisting on taking an oath of loyalty to the country and its leader, and must therefore be released. Attempts by an enthusiastic police sergeant to act as an agent provocateur and stir uo dissension among the populatidn have failed as the people persistently refuse to break the law. The consequences of all this are gradually dawning on the chief of police even as he triesio bribe the poli6cal prisoner to remain a dissident. For the police and the criminal, the secret service and the revolutionary are entirely dependent on each other. You can't have one without the other. Can you even have such a thing as loyalty if there is no disloyalty? Written in 1958 by the Polish playwright Slawomir Mrozek as a satire on the totalitarian state, The Police serves pretty well for today too, not least because, as adaptor Anders Lustgarten suggests, you need an enemy if you are going to wage a war on terror. Despite the orange Guanthamo-style prison suits, director Christopher Loscher never overplays the contemporary relevance in a production that demonstrates good acting, flair and confidence. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Punishment Stories, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Finborough Theatre, 118 Finborough Road, London SW10 9ED >>> | 02 Jun 2010 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #75767 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Verity Bargate Award Shortlist, 2007 | |||||
Synopsis: | Big man jail, 2010. Jermaine is looking at a big lump. His co-defendant D is more concerned with chocolate biscuits and minor drug deals. But the pressure of their situation, and of coming to grips with what they did, is about to put their friendship under serious stress. Runner up for the Verity Bargate Award, The Punishment Stories is fast, funny and about something most prison dramas ignore: what it's like to be guilty. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Torture Comedy, A | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2007 | |||||
Company: | Operating Theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #91240 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | extras | |||||
Notes: | part of writer's block | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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